The fall of Dresdner

September 4, 2008

So Dresdner has finally been sold to Commerzbank by Allianz. The sale of DKW has been often rumoured over the last few years. It’s sad to see it finally go, since Dresdner had long been a bastion of tech innovation in the City and Wall St. A while back I commented on how Swiss Bank, long since merged with UBS, was the coolest bank from a tech perspective back in the early and mid 90s. In recent years Dresdner has grabbed attention with…

OpenAdaptor: this open source middleware toolkit made DKW the first bank to open source its own code